Aberdeenshire HER - NJ66SE0400 - 1 WATER PATH, BANFF

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Feature: NJ66SE0400 - 1 WATER PATH, BANFF
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Houses, still in use, built in the 18th century. They are a gabled L-plan range of different heights on steeply sloping island site, with a circa 1830 entrance/stair wing projecting from the re-entrant angle. Path House, to the east, is dated 1756. It is a two-storey and dormerless attic house, with a tall east-facing gable, and long four-bay elevations facing north (rear) and south. Path Cottage to the west is linked at right angles to form the L-plan. It is a single storey over a raised basement cottage with an entrance in the long west elevation, opening to Old Castlegate. In the re-entrant angle projects a two-storey, symmetrical three-bay gabled entrance bay of circa 1830-40 ( in the style of William Robertson), linked to the house and cottage by curved screen walls. All is harled, with painted ashlar margins. The tall, narrow, two-bay east-facing gable has a raised basement doorway, and chamfered angles to the raised ground floor level (accommodating two arms of Water Path passing each side). There are also paired, raised ground-floor, first-floor and small attic lights. A wallhead gablet to the north elevation has a 19th century canted oriel. Mainly plate glass glazing is used, in timber sash and case windows. The slate roofs have corniced end and ridge stacks. High, rubble, 18th century walls enclose the garden on the south side of Water Path, and similar rubble walls enclose a smll triangular garden space immediately below the house. Inside, there is a curved staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters, and a mural alcove for a grandfather clock in stairwell. There are mid-18th century raised and fielded panelled doors, mainly six-panel but one two-panel door in the cottage, also 1830-40 doors and house carpentry.
100 m
200 ft
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